The Uttarakhand Cabinet has given its nod to creation of an artisan- weaver development fund for employment generation through the medium of micro, small and medium enterprises.
This is among the various decisions, especially relating to the betterment of the deprived and such other sections of society, taken by the State Cabinet at a meeting held in Dehradun on Friday.
The banks will provide up to 25 per cent margin money in the form of assistance grant (maximum Rs 50,000 per person) for projects with cost of up to Rs 3 lakh.
The Cabinet also approved disbursal of Rs 200 cr sugarcane dues of which the State Government will be providing Rs 100 cr with the remaining amount to be facilitated through loans and other means.
The Indramani Badoni Protsahan Yojana will also be implemented for facilitating the vocational education of talented students from families living below the poverty line. In order to facilitate higher and technical education of Muslim female students, a special Muslim student scholarship will be established with a corpus fund of Rs 1 cr. Further, a Rs 2 crore fund has also been approved by the Cabinet for the Raja Vijay Bahadur Singh Ati Pratibhawan Kisan Chatravritti Yojana.
Similarly, a fund of Rs 1 cr will be established to facilitate encouragement to elementary education of students belonging to nomadic and semi-nomadic communities. Further, a Rs 1 crore scholarship fund will also be established under the Ahilya Bai Holkar scholarship scheme to provide scholarship to girls belonging to other backward class. A Rs 2 cr fund will also be established for a scheme to encourage students belonging to most backward class.
A Rs 50 lakh fund will also be established to facilitate higher education for State resident students of Kamboj community. It should be mentioned here that a fund of Rs 1 cr has been established in the past for facilitation of elementary and middle level education of students belong to this community.
Under the Surendra Rakesh (former MlA Bhagwanpur) memorial scholarship scheme for Scheduled Caste students, the students making it to the top ten positions in the Uttarakhand board examination will be provided Rs 1 lakh each for encouraging higher education, the Cabinet decided.
Approval was also granted to a proposal for establishment of Shilpi Bunkar Vikas Nigam wherein provision will be made through the corporation to provide margin money to the artisans and weavers as financial assistance. The maximum limit per person for this scheme will be Rs 50,000.
The Cabinet also gave its nod to the Dayanand Bharti Kaushal Yojana to encourage skill development for building and other construction workers.
The Cabinet also approved a scheme for providing sanitary napkins to girl students studying in Classes XI and XII.